--- title: "Your Year-End Marketplace Reporting Checklist" url: https://www.suger.io/resources/blog/year-end-marketplace-reporting-checklist/ canonical: https://www.suger.io/resources/blog/year-end-marketplace-reporting-checklist/ type: Blog description: "A year-end marketplace reporting checklist for finance: disbursement matching, usage true-up, fee reconciliation, tax, revenue recognition, and sign-off." --- # Your Year-End Marketplace Reporting Checklist > Canonical HTML version: https://www.suger.io/resources/blog/year-end-marketplace-reporting-checklist/ 1. [Home](/) 2. / 3. [Resources](/resources/) 4. / 5. [Blog](/resources/blog/) 6. / 7. Your Year-End Marketplace Reporting Checklist # Your Year-End Marketplace Reporting Checklist Year-end close is where a year of marketplace shortcuts comes due. The reconciliations a finance team should run before closing the books, in order. 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"Summarize with Perplexity") Table of Contents - [What year-end marketplace reporting has to reconcile](#what-year-end-marketplace-reporting-has-to-reconcile) - [The year-end checklist](#the-year-end-checklist) - [Do the monthly work so year-end isn’t a scramble](#do-the-monthly-work-so-year-end-isnt-a-scramble) - [How Suger helps](#how-suger-helps) - [Frequently asked questions](#frequently-asked-questions) - [Takeaways](#takeaways) _A year-end marketplace reporting checklist is the set of reconciliations a finance team runs before closing the annual books: matching provider disbursements to invoices, truing up metered usage, reconciling fees, and settling tax and revenue recognition across every marketplace you sell on._ * * * Year-end close is where a year of small marketplace shortcuts comes due at once. A missed usage true-up in March, a disbursement that never matched an invoice in July, a currency assumption nobody wrote down — none of them hurt when the month closed, and all of them surface when the auditors do. Marketplace revenue is harder to close than direct revenue because the numbers legitimately disagree by design: what you invoiced, what the buyer paid, and what the provider disbursed to you are three different figures with three different timings. Here is the checklist that reconciles them, in the order that keeps year-end from becoming a scramble. * * * ## **What year-end marketplace reporting has to reconcile** The core difficulty is that a single marketplace sale produces several numbers that are all correct and all different. The amount invoiced, the amount the buyer has paid, and the amount disbursed to you each reflect a different moment and a different party, and at year-end they all have to tie out to the general ledger. Do it per marketplace, then in aggregate. AWS, Microsoft, and Google Cloud each report these figures on their own schedule and in their own format, so “total marketplace revenue” is only meaningful once each provider’s numbers reconcile on their own first. Why the figures differ in the first place is the subject of [why your marketplaces report different numbers](/resources/blog/marketplace-revenue-reconciliation/) — year-end is where that difference has to be resolved on paper. * * * ## **The year-end checklist** Run these in order. Each depends on the one before it being clean: 1. **Disbursement matching.** Match every provider disbursement received this year to the invoice and agreement it settles. Unmatched disbursements are the most common year-end surprise. 2. **Usage true-up.** For usage-based deals, reconcile the metered usage you recorded against what was actually billed and collected. Gaps here are revenue you earned and never captured, or captured twice. 3. **Fee reconciliation.** Account for the provider’s cut on every transaction, so gross and net revenue both tie out and the fee line is defensible. 4. **Tax and withholding.** Confirm who remitted tax on each sale — it varies by country and by marketplace — and that any withholding is documented. The structure is covered in [tax and withholding on marketplace revenue](/resources/blog/tax-and-withholding-on-marketplace-revenue/). 5. **Revenue recognition.** Make sure recognized revenue matches the delivery pattern of each contract, not the timing of the cash, across the full year. 6. **Currency and FX.** Reconcile any deals transacted in a currency other than your reporting currency at the correct rates and dates. 7. **Variance review and sign-off.** Explain every material variance before it becomes an audit question, and have the owner sign off. Zero invented figures belong in this report — every number should trace to a provider statement or your own system of record. * * * ## **Do the monthly work so year-end isn’t a scramble** The single best predictor of a clean year-end is a clean monthly close. Almost everything above is far cheaper to reconcile in the month it happened, while the disbursement is recent and the deal is fresh, than eleven months later from memory and a spreadsheet. If year-end is currently a fire drill, the fix isn’t a better December — it’s the [monthly marketplace close checklist](/resources/blog/the-monthly-marketplace-close-checklist/) run every month, so year-end becomes a summation of twelve reconciled months rather than one enormous reconciliation. * * * ## **How Suger helps** Most of the year-end pain is data assembly — pulling each provider’s invoiced, collected, and disbursed figures into one place where they can be matched. [Suger’s reporting](/platform/reporting/) consolidates those datasets across marketplaces, and its usage records give you the metered-usage basis to true up against what was billed. When the disbursed, invoiced, and metered numbers already sit in one system, year-end is a review of reconciled data, not a reconstruction of it. * * * ## **Frequently asked questions** **What goes on a year-end marketplace reporting checklist?** Disbursement matching, usage true-up, fee reconciliation, tax and withholding, revenue recognition, currency reconciliation, and a variance review with sign-off — run per marketplace first, then in aggregate against the general ledger. **Why is marketplace revenue harder to close than direct revenue?** Because a single sale produces several correct-but-different numbers: what you invoiced, what the buyer paid, and what the provider disbursed, each on its own timing. They all have to tie out at close. **What causes the most year-end surprises?** Unmatched disbursements and missed usage true-ups. A disbursement that was never tied to an invoice, or metered usage that was never billed, is far harder to resolve in December than in the month it occurred. **Should I reconcile each marketplace separately?** Yes. AWS, Microsoft, and Google Cloud report on different schedules and formats, so reconcile each provider’s numbers on their own before rolling up to a total, or the aggregate hides the discrepancies. **How do I avoid a year-end fire drill?** Run a monthly close. Reconciling each month while the data is fresh turns year-end into a summation of twelve reconciled months rather than one twelve-month reconciliation done under a deadline. * * * ## **Takeaways** - Year-end close resolves a year of small marketplace discrepancies at once. Run the reconciliations in order, per marketplace first, then in aggregate. - The hard part is that invoiced, collected, and disbursed are three correct-but-different numbers — reconcile all three. - Work the list in sequence: disbursement matching, usage true-up, fee reconciliation, tax, revenue recognition, currency, then variance review and sign-off. - A clean monthly close is the only real fix for a year-end scramble. Reconcile each month while the data is fresh. * * * Close the year on reconciled data, not a reconstruction: see how [Suger’s reporting](/platform/reporting/) consolidates marketplace figures, and [book a demo](/schedule-demo/). ## Sources Primary sources for the platform rules cited above. Last verified August 19, 2026. Cloud providers change fees, eligibility, and program terms without notice — check the source before relying on a figure. - [Suger docs: Metering](https://doc.suger.io/get-started/metering/) — How Suger records and aggregates usage — the basis for reconciling metered usage against what was billed at year-end. - [Suger docs: Available datasets](https://doc.suger.io/analytics/available-datasets/) — The invoiced, collected, and disbursed datasets a finance team reconciles across marketplaces at close. ### Stay Updated Get the latest Cloud GTM insights, product updates, and marketplace strategies delivered to your inbox.